Thankfully, Snowman’s More
Amiable Than Abominable
Minnesota farmer Greg Novak created a towering tribute
to winter’s excess — he built a 50-foot snowman named
“Granddaddy.” Novak hopes Granddaddy will wake onlookers from their winter doldrums. The giant snowman
began to take shape earlier this winter when the Gilman
farmer needed to move mounting snow piles away from
his greenhouses. “As long as you’re moving it, might as
well do something practical with it,” Novak said. (AP)
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WHO CITED JOHN BASILE FOR TAKING HIS PET TIGER CUB TO
SEVERAL BARS LAST WEEK WHILE OUT FOR A WALK. BASILE
FACES MISDEMEANOR CHARGES, THE HERALD-NEWS REPORTS.

DINNER DRINKS

Critic Sheep: ‘It’s Pretty Baaad’
The Conwy Brewery in Llysfaen, Wales, created a beer
that one might call meaty — it’s lamb-flavored. Named
“The Sunday Toast,” meat juice is a major ingredient in
the lamb-flavored beer, The Mirror reports. The beer
was created in honor of St. David’s Day, a Welsh national holiday. “We’re truly delighted with the end result,”
brewer Gwynne Thomas said. (EXPRESS)

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Ace Hardware is having its best winter in more than a decade for snow
blower and shovel sales. Waterproof
boots are on a long backorder at
clothing maker L.L. Bean. And more
people are staying home and ordering gooey grilled cheese sandwiches and booze from Delivery.com.
Much of the country has been
in a deep freeze. Only 32 winters have been colder in the past
119 years, according to Jake Crouch, a
climate scientist at the National Climatic Data Center, a division of the
National Oceanic and Atmosphere
Administration.
With more Americans stuck
indoors, customers are ordering up
more meals and arranging to have
their laundry picked up through
Delivery.com’s website and smartphone app. Sales at the company, which operates in major metro
areas such as New York, Chicago
and D.C., rose 30 percent in January and February compared with

LOS ANGELES

On the latest snow day in a winter full of them, residents of parts of the South, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast were coping with several inches of snow on top
of a layer of slush. At left, Cincinnati received 3 to 6
new inches Monday; in New Jersey, nearly 6 inches
fell in some areas, which could make it the eighth
snowiest winter in the past 120 years. Temperatures
were expected to dip into the single digits along the
Eastern Seaboard on Monday night. That doesn’t
usually happen after March 1, which is sometimes referred to as the start of “meteorological spring.” (AP)

New York

the year before. Orders for soups,
wine and vodka have spiked.
People are “trying to stay warm,”
said Neeraj Sharma, the website’s
vice president of marketing. “They’re
hibernating.”
Sales of shovels and snow blowers have doubled at Oak Brook, Ill.based Ace Hardware. The company is also shipping salt and other ice
melters to southern regions such as
Atlanta, which rarely have to deal
with severe weather. Total sales are
up 20 percent so far this year compared with a year ago.
Another product folks are stocking up on? Carmex. The maker of the
lip balm said sales are up 9 percent

87,000

“The concept of
a polar vortex
doesn’t feel good,
but it’s good for
business.”
— K A NE CA L A M A R I, A VICE PRESIDENT
AT ACE HARDWARE CORP.

over the past eight to 10 weeks from
the same period a year ago. Pawz
Dog Boots, which makes rubber
booties that safeguard paws from
salt and snow, said its sales in North
America have more than doubled.
L.L. Bean can’t make its rubber
and leather boots fast enough. The

boots, known as Bean Boots, are
made by hand in Freeport, Maine.
The company hired 40 new workers, but it will take them at least
six months to be fully trained.
“We’re making them as fast as
we can,” said L.L. Bean spokeswoman Carolyn Beem.
When snow falls in Philadelphia,
more smashed cars pile into Nigro’s
Auto Body Repair. Icy roads, gaping
potholes and the city’s second-largest snowfall in more than 70 years
have helped the auto shop’s business
triple from a year ago. “One guy was
parked and a snowplow ripped his
car apart,” owner Domenic Nigro
said. JOSEPH PISANI (AP)

The number of domestic flights canceled since Dec. 1, a record number in a winter that has
been extra daunting for air travelers. The latest batch occurred Monday, when more than 2,800 flights
in the U.S. were canceled by the afternoon, according to flight-tracking site FlightAware.com. (AP)

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False Alarm ‘Olympus’
Ad Draws $1.9M Fine
It turns out that using emergency warning
tones in a TV commercial with images
of the White House blowing up and the
flashing words “THIS IS NOT A TEST”
is frowned upon by the government. The
Federal Communications Commission
said Monday it was fining three media
giants $1.9 million for using the warning
tones in an ad for the movie “Olympus Has
Fallen” that had complainants jumping
out of bathtubs and racing to the TV. (AP)
LOS ANGELES

Disney to End Funding to
Scouts Over Gay Policy
The Walt Disney Company will cut funding
to the Boy Scouts of America beginning
in 2015 because of a policy that bans gay
adult leaders in the organization. Disney
does not provide direct funding to the Boy
Scouts, but it donates money to some
troops in exchange for volunteer hours
completed by Disney employees. (AP)
MISSOULA, MONT.

Avalanche Victim Dies
A woman who was rescued after her
Missoula, Mont., home was destroyed
by an avalanche died Sunday. Michel
Colville, 68, her husband and an 8-yearold boy were buried Friday when the
avalanche crushed the couple’s house.
The other two survived. (AP)

Vietnam Vets Sue Over PTSD
New Haven, Conn.
The U.S. military has failed to
upgrade the discharges of Vietnam
veterans who developed post-traumatic stress disorder, resulting in
stigma and loss of beneﬁts, according to a federal lawsuit ﬁled Monday.
Five Vietnam veterans and three
veterans organizations are suing the
Army, Navy and Air Force in Connecticut. The veterans say they suffered PTSD before it was recognized
and were discharged under other-than-honorable conditions that
made them ineligible for beneﬁts.
The lawsuit, which seeks classaction status to represent tens of
thousands of veterans, says the
military has systematically denied
applications for upgrades involving evidence of PTSD.
“Unfortunately, the Pentagon
has refused to correct the decades

“If I were
discharged today,
my PTSD would
be recognized
and treated and
I wouldn’t be
punished.”
— CONLE Y MONK , WHO SERVED IN
VIETNAM, DEVELOPED PTSD, EXPERIENCED FLASHBACKS WHILE STATIONED
IN JAPAN AND WENT ABSENT WITHOUT
LEAVE, ACCORDING TO THE LAWSUIT

of injustice experienced by tens of
thousands of veterans who suffer
from PTSD but were discharged
before it was a diagnosable condition,” said V Prentice of the Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale
Law School, which represents the
plaintiffs, in a news release.
Lt. Col. Damien Pickart, a Pen-

4.5%

The proportion of applications for
discharge upgrades involving PTSD
that have been granted for Vietnam
veterans since 1993, according to the
lawsuit. (AP)

tagon spokesman, said the department doesn’t comment on pending litigation. The Department of
Defense has said the agency is committed to addressing concerns related to PTSD and has taken numerous
steps, including conducting PTSD
assessments of service members at
military treatment facilities.
The lawsuit seeks what it calls
consistent and medically appropriate standards for considering the
effects of PTSD when determining
whether to upgrade a discharge.
JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN (AP)

Wall of Shame: A Florida teenager’s Facebook post has cost her father an
$80,000 settlement. The dad, Patrick Snay, had sued Miami’s Gulliver Preparatory
for age discrimination after he lost his job. The school settled, with the stipulation
that the settlement details would not be disclosed. Then his daughter posted this
to Facebook: “Mama and Papa Snay won the case … Gulliver is now officially paying for my vacation to Europe.” A judge invalidated the settlement last week. (AP)

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Witness at Pistorius Trial
Recalls Screams, Gunfire

Hearsay

“There is no war to be
fought in Afghanistan.
I believe that much
of the conﬂict is a
creation in which the
Afghans suﬀer.’’

Defense says cries
for help came from
athlete, not girlfriend

— Afghan President Hamid Karzai, in an
interview with The Washington Post in which
he sought to explain why he has been such a
harsh critic of the 12-year-old U.S. war effort in
Afghanistan. Karzai said he believes the war was
not waged with his country’s interests in mind.

The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius opened Monday in South Africa with testimony from a neighbor who described the sound of
what she said were four gunshots
and recalled the “blood-curdling
screams” of a woman.
“It’s the most helpless feeling
I’ve ever had in my life,” university lecturer Michelle Burger said of
listening to the screams. “I knew
something terrible was happening
in that house.”
Pistorius, the 27-year-old double-amputee runner whose stature
peaked at the 2012 London Olympics and plummeted when he shot
model Reeva Steenkamp in the predawn hours of Valentine’s Day last
year, stood in the dock, writing in a
pad and sometimes passing notes
to defense lawyers. At one point, he
smiled at a person sitting behind
him. Steenkamp’s mother, June,
sat near Pistorius but there was
no communication between them.
Prosecutors allege that Pistorius
shot Steenkamp after an argument.
He has said he killed her after mistaking her for an intruder, shooting her through the closed door of
the toilet cubicle in his bathroom.
Steenkamp, 29, was hit three times
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Oscar Pistorius is watched by June Steenkamp, right, the mother of victim Reeva
Steenkamp, as he arrives for his trial in Pretoria, South Africa, on Monday.

The Case
If convicted of the murder charge,
Oscar Pistorius could go to prison for
at least 25 years before the chance of
parole. There is no death penalty. (AP)

a fourth bullet did not hit her.
Early testimony focused on
whether the screams that Burger
said she heard were those of a terriﬁed woman about to be shot to
death, as prosecutors allege, or were
instead Pistorius’ desperate shrieks
for help after a fatal mistake, as his
defense lawyers contend.
Burger said she was woken up

by a woman’s screams and a call
for help. She then heard a man call
for help three times, followed by a
woman’s screams, four gunshots —
with a gap between the ﬁrst shot
and the rest — and more screaming.
Chief defense lawyer Barry
Roux, in an attempt to discredit the
idea that Pistorius and Steenkamp
had an argument before the shooting, contended that Burger heard
just Pistorius screaming. He also
suggested that she had not heard
shots but instead the sound of the
athlete breaking down the door with
a cricket bat after realizing he had
shot Steenkamp. CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA
AND GER ALD IMR AY (AP)

A Mountain of Trash: Mount Everest has long
been littered with the broken dreams of those who attempt
the arduous climb to its 29,028-foot peak, the world’s tallest. The estimated 300 climbers and 600 support sherpas
who try to make the summit yearly leave behind plenty of literal litter as well. Nepal is working to change that, The Wall
Street Journal reported Monday, requiring each climber to
remove at least 17 pounds of trash, on top of oxygen canisters and their own excrement. Previous rules required trash
to be packed out but were rarely enforced, sending sherpas
back to Everest on clean-up expeditions, left. (E XPRESS)

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Gunmen, Bombers
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Islamabad
Gunmen stormed Pakistan’s main
court complex in Islamabad on Monday, cutting down ﬂeeing lawyers
before blowing themselves up in a
rampage that killed 11 people and
injured 29. It was the worst terror
attack in years in the capital, which
has largely been spared the violence
raging in many parts of the country.
The bloodshed undermined the
government’s efforts to negotiate a
peace deal with the main militant
group, the Pakistani Taliban, just
days after the group announced
a one-month cease-ﬁre for talks.
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A group named Ahrar-ul-Hind
claimed responsibility in a call to
an AP reporter. A spokesman for
the group said it was not part of the
Pakistani Taliban, nor bound by their
cease-fire. There was no way to independently verify their claim. (AP)

In an assault that lasted roughly 20 minutes, gunmen swarmed
through the alleys between the
complex’s buildings, hurling grenades and ﬁring automatic weapons wildly, witnesses said. Gunmen broke through a door to one
judge’s chambers and shot him to
death, while other victims were
mowed down in the cafeteria.
REBECCA SANTANA AND Z AR AR KHAN (AP)

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“The crowd gathered in
St Peter’s Square and those
watching around the world
asked themselves ‘Did he
just say f---?’ ”
— Britain’s The Daily Mail, on Pope Francis’ slip of the tongue during a blessing
Sunday at the Vatican. The pope, a native of Argentina, was speaking in Italian
when he meant to say “caso” (example) but instead said the vulgarity “cazzo.”
He quickly corrected himself, but within seconds, the mistake had gone viral.

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Fixing the Pothole Plague
The event known as Potholepalooza is scheduled to begin on March 20,
Mayor Vincent Gray announced last week. During the annual, monthlong
reporting and patching campaign, the District Department of Transportation will add more patching crews and speed up its goal for fixing reported
potholes from 72 hours to 48 hours. (T WP)

Washington
Ah, a trip to D.C.’s DMV — more
fun than a trip to the dentist? But
it can be a little less painful if you
know when (and when not) to head
to various Department of Motor
Vehicles ofﬁces.
For all branches and the inspection station: avoid the lunch hours
between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Also,
don’t go at the end of the month
and the days before and after a
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Tuesdays appear to be particularly bad; Saturdays if you hit it right,
you can be out of there in ﬁve minutes at some ofﬁces.
If you are headed to the Penn
Branch Service Center, your average wait is about 12 minutes. The
longest average wait, according to
DMV statistics, was 22 minutes
on Tuesdays between 1 and 3 p.m.
Shortest wait, about eight minutes

on Saturdays from 2 to 3:30 p.m.
If you are headed to the Southwest Service Center, the average
wait was about 35 minutes. The longest average wait was 63 minutes
on Tuesdays from 1 to 3 p.m. Shortest average wait was 14 minutes on
Saturdays from 8:15 to 10:15 a.m.
If the Rhode Island Service Center is where you need to be, it’s a
14 minute average wait. The longest

average wait is 33 minutes on Tuesdays between 1 and 3 p.m. (What
is it about Tuesdays?) The shortest average wait was 5 minutes on
Saturdays from 8:15 to 10:15 a.m.
Finally, if it’s time to take your
car in for inspection, it’s a 21-minute average wait. The longest average wait was 64 minutes on, that’s
right, Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m. The
shortest average wait was 4 minutes on Saturdays at 10 a.m.
One last tidbit: For those on the
west end of town anxiously awaiting the opening (really in some
ways a reopening) of the new service center at the Georgetown
Park Mall, it is slated for April 29.
ROBERT THOMSEN (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Snow Pelts a Weary Washington Yet Again
Washington
The winter weather that has pummeled Washington this season
brought the region to a standstill
once again Monday, landing its
heaviest blow of the season with
a mix of ice and rapid snowfall.
With ample forewarning, most of
the region’s schools, businesses and
governments announced Sunday
that they would be shuttered until
the storm passed. Metrobus service
was suspended, though the subway
system continued to function. Police
reported that the few drivers who
ventured out were sliding into one

In Brief

The Week’s Forecast
Today: Sunny but cold. Highs in
the low-to-mid 20s in the suburbs to
the mid-to-upper 20s downtown.
Wednesday: Partly to mostly
cloudy. Highs range from 31-36
Thursday: Highs from 35-40.
Some rain and/or snow possible.
Friday: May see a return of milder
air and finally break into the 40s.
Weekend: Another strong cold
front is likely, with highs in the 40s on
Saturday and a high of 40 on Sunday.

another fairly frequently.
At midday, a tractor-trailer carrying tomatoes overturned on U.S.
Route 50 in the Lanham, Md., area,
shutting down all lanes of trafﬁc.
By early afternoon, recorded

Washington

Woman in Labor Robbed
At Gunpoint in Annapolis

The D.C. Council today is poised
to make the city one of the nation’s
most lenient for marijuana possession, easing penalties that most
often ensnare African-Americans,
including a potential one-year jail
sentence that is expected to be
reduced to a $25 fine.
Amid growing support for legalizing marijuana, D.C. lawmakers
said they are acting out of an interest in greater social justice when
it comes to pot arrests — not civil
liberties to allow more drug use.
Still, city lawmakers in recent
weeks pulled back from an even
more liberal proposal: Smoking
pot in public would remain a crime,
akin to carrying an open can of beer.
Decriminalizing possession of
marijuana, but leaving the act of
smoking the drug a crime, critics
say, will keep alive concerns about
racial proﬁling in arrests. It will
also create new gray areas in policing: D.C. ofﬁcers would not be able

ANNAPOLIS

3 Democrats Running
For Governor Set Debates
The three major Democratic campaigns
for governor of Maryland have reached
agreement on the framework for a series
of debates in advance of the June 24
primary, they announced Monday. There
will be three debates among Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, Attorney General Douglas
Gansler and Del. Heather Mizeur, and
one debate among their three running
mates. They will take place during the
weeks of May 5, May 19 and June 2. (TWP)

snowfall totals varied around the
area, including 7 inches in Ashburn, Va., 4.5 in Fairfax, 5.9 in
Rockville, 5 in Northeast D.C. and
2.5 in Bowie, Md.
D.C. and most other jurisdic-

The District Is Poised to
Loosen Marijuana Rules

ANNAPOLIS

A pregnant woman who was reported
to be in labor was held up at gunpoint
in Annapolis early Sunday, authorities
said. Annapolis police said they were
alerted about 4:30 a.m. that the woman
and a man were being held at gunpoint.
Seven police saw the robbers flee and
arrested two people after a chase, police
said. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Region shuts down
as this cold blast
takes a familiar toll

A Hazy Future

tions declared snow emergencies,
imposing parking restrictions on
streets. Virginia’s governor declared
a state of emergency to speed up
efforts to deal with the storm.
Plunging temperatures had one

A ARON C. DAVIS (THE WASHINGTON POST )

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The amount that Districtbased CoStar Group paid for
Apartments.com, the apartment
search company, CoStar announced Monday. In the transaction,
CoStar will also acquire the websites ApartmentHomeLiving.com
and RentalHomesPlus.com. Last year the three sites collectively
generated 114 million visits. (THE WASHINGTON POST )

Little is known about how federal
agencies will respond when they see
people abiding by D.C.’s law but violating federal statute. It would be
legal, for instance, to carry up to an
ounce of marijuana split into dozens
of bags, paraphernalia to smoke it
and an unlimited amount of cash.
But under federal law, those conditions could be used to charge someone with possession with intent to
distribute, potentially drawing a
multi-year sentence. (T WP)

to arrest on the smell of marijuana, for instance; they would have
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The measure passed a ﬁrst vote
last month with only one dissenting vote, and Mayor Vincent Gray
said he supports it. In recent days,
a majority of council members
said in interviews that they would
support the bill in a final vote.

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Russia called for a national unity
deal in Ukraine even as it tightened its stranglehold over Crimea,
a bold combination of diplomacy
and escalating military pressure.
Meanwhile, the U.S. and European Union floundered for solutions.
Fears grew in the Ukrainian
capital of Kiev and beyond that
the Kremlin might carry out more
land grabs in pro-Russian eastern
Ukraine, adding urgency to Western efforts to defuse the crisis. U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry was
heading to Kiev in an expression
of support for Ukraine’s sovereignty, and the EU threatened a raft of
punitive measures as it called an
emergency summit on Ukraine
for Thursday.
But it was Russia that appeared
to be driving the agenda.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a U.N. Human
Rights Council session in Geneva that Ukraine should return to
an agreement signed last month
by pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych — but not
Moscow — to hold early elections
and surrender some powers. Yanukovych ﬂed the country after sealing the pact with the opposition.
“Instead of a promised national unity government,” Lavrov said,
“a government of the victors has
been created.”
Meanwhile, Ukrainian authorities said that Russian troops had
issued an ultimatum for two Ukrainian warships to surrender or be
seized — prompting the country’s
acting president to accuse Russia
of “piracy.”
A Russian defense ministry
spokesman dismissed the report of
a Russian ultimatum as nonsense
but refused to elaborate.
Warning of a “dangerous escalation,” the Obama administration

A Ukrainian soldier stands behind a window Monday while armed men block the Ukrainian Navy headquarters in Sevastopol.

said Washington would hold Moscow directly accountable for any
threat to Ukraine’s navy.
Russia is “on the wrong side
of history” in Ukraine, President
Barack Obama said, adding the
U.S. was considering economic and
diplomatic options that will isolate
Russia, and called on Congress to
work on an aid package for Ukraine.
Still, it was not clear what the
West could do to make Russia
back down. The clearest weapon
at the disposal of the EU and U.S.
appeared to be economic sanctions
that would freeze Russian assets
and pull the plug on multi-billion
dollar deals with Russia.
By Monday, it was clear that

Markets React
Market reaction to the Russian
seizure was furious Monday. Both
the Dow Jones industrial average
and the Nasdaq composite closed
sharply down, while oil prices rose
on fears that Russia, a major oil
exporter, might face sanctions.
In European trading, gold rose
while the euro and stock markets
fell. The greatest impact was felt
in Moscow, where the main RTS
index was down 12 percent. Gazprom, the Russian energy giant,
was also a big loser, its share price
down 13 percent as investors worried about how it would get its gas
to Europe since much of it goes
through Ukrainian pipelines. (AP)

“This is a question of defending our
citizens and compatriots, ensuring
human rights.”
— RUSSIA N FOREIGN MINISTER SERGE Y L AV ROV, WHO JUSTIFIED THE INVASION OF
UKRAINE AS A NECESSARY PROTECTION FOR HIS COUNTRY’S CITIZENS LIVING THERE

Russia had complete operational control of Crimea. Russian soldiers controlled all Crimean border posts, as well as all military
facilities in the territory.
Border guard spokesman Sergei Astakhov said the Russians
were demanding that Ukrainian
soldiers and guards transfer their
allegiance to Crimea’s new proRussian local government.
“The Russians are behaving
very aggressively,” he said. “They
came in by breaking down doors,
knocking out windows.”
Ukraine’s prime minister admitted his country had “no military
options on the table” to reverse
Russia’s military moves.
The fears in the Ukrainian capital and beyond are that Russia
might seek to expand its control by
seizing other parts of Ukraine in
the pro-Russian east of the country, the country’s industrial powerhouse and agricultural breadbasket.
DALTON BENNET T AND DAVID McHUGH (AP)

The White House and major U.S. allies strained Monday to rally a strong
Western front to persuade Russia to
step back. But several acknowledged
there are few options beyond alreadythreatened economic and diplomatic
penalties. Still, alternately threatening and cajoling Russian President
Vladimir Putin, Western leaders
pointed to the damage that his nation’s natural gas, uranium and coal
industries could suffer if sanctions
cut off exports to the European Union.
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS

Ukraine Says 16,000
Russian Troops There
Ukraine’s mission to the United
Nations claimed that 16,000 Russian troops have been deployed in
Crimea, while Russia’s U.N. ambassador told an emergency Security
Council meeting that Ukraine’s fugitive president requested them.

EU Calls for Summit
European Union leaders called
a special summit for Thursday,
where they are expected to freeze
visa liberalization and economic
cooperation talks if Moscow hasn’t
taken steps to calm the crisis.

U.S. Pulls Delegation
The White House says the United
States has decided not to send a
presidential delegation to the Paralympic Games in Sochi, Russia. (AP)

Redskins linebacker Brian Orakpo recorded 10 sacks last season and was selected to his third Pro Bowl. The Redskins placed the franchise tag on the 27-year-old Monday.

A Short-Term Solution
The Redskins decided to rent instead of buy when
they slapped the franchise tag on linebacker
Brian Orakpo on Monday. It was the smart-money
move. The Redskins control their 2009 firstrounder for 2014 by paying $11.45 million rather
than allowing Orakpo to seek a more lucrative
deal when free agency begins March 11.
Another team could still sign
Orakpo by giving
Washington two
first-round picks,
though that’s a real
long shot. Carolina
gave up two firsts to
sign Washington’s
franchised defenBy Rick
sive tackle Sean Gil- Snider
bert in 1999, which
eventually brought cornerback
Champ Bailey, linebacker LaVar
Arrington and running back
Clinton Portis to the Redskins
while Gilbert was a bust.
Orakpo isn’t worth $11.45 million, but the Redskins decided
they couldn’t afford to lose him
just yet. The team is reversing

a long history of letting players
it drafted leave while pursuing
free agents, which often proved
wrong. This time it’s buying one
more season to see if Orakpo is a
long-term playmaker.
Orakpo was healthy throughout 2013, but his pectoral injuries in 2011-12 still make him
suspect for a ﬁve-year, megadollar deal. One offensive tackle
could hook Orakpo’s arm backward and his career would be
jeopardized. It’s too much money
to risk long term without seeing
a second healthy season.
Orakpo hasn’t been quite
the dominant pass rusher he
was expected to be, but then he
hasn’t gained enough help from

teammates to blossom. If the
secondary improves — making passers wait an extra second
looking for an open receiver —
Orakpo will probably have a few
more sacks per season.
If defensive coordinator Jim
Haslett truly was restrained by
former coach Mike Shanahan,
then let’s see if the new system
creates the second coming of
Dexter Manley and Charles
Mann by turning Orakpo into
a 15-sack pass rusher and Ryan
Kerrigan into 10-plus.
Orakpo has been a solid player
when healthy, but he hasn’t been a
difference-maker. When the Redskins won seven straight games in
2012, Orakpo was injured.

Orakpo isn’t worth
$11.45 million,
but the Redskins
decided they
couldn’t aﬀord to
lose him just yet.

But Washington has no pass
pressure without him, so the
team spent a third of its free
agency budget to keep Orakpo.
A long-term deal would have
been more salary cap-friendly
this season, but the uncertainty
of whether Orakpo is worth it
forced the short-term move. Also,
without a ﬁrst-rounder and no
standout free agent available,
the loss of Orakpo would have
created another need on a team
with too many already.
Washington could still work
out a long-term deal later, while
Orakpo can refuse to sign and
hold out. Both scenarios are
unlikely. Orakpo wants to be
treated as a higher-paid end but
plays linebacker more, so discussions will probably go nowhere
until after the season.
Meanwhile, $11.45 million
isn’t bad money for one season.
Rick Snider has covered Washington
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Fifty-ﬁve touchdown passes. Fifteen wins. A ﬁfth MVP trophy.
Peyton Manning is more productive than he’s ever been, the ﬁnal
piece of evidence that Manning is as
good as ever came Monday.
As expected, Manning passed
the exam on his surgically repaired
neck that was required by his contract with the Broncos that will
pay him $20 million next season,
according to a person with knowledge of the results. The person
spoke to The Associated Press on
condition of anonymity Monday
because results of medical checkups typically aren’t announced.
Manning has said that if doctors tell him he’s at risk physically, he’d have no problem calling it
a career.
After his four neck procedures,
including a spinal fusion that sidelined him for all of 2011 and eventually led to his release from Indianapolis, Manning has said he has
steeled himself for that possibility.
ARNIE STAPLETON (AP)

Meanwhile …
Wide receiver Anquan Boldin
will be back with the 49ers next season. The 49ers and Boldin agreed
to a two-year, $12 million contract
with $9 million guaranteed Monday,
keeping quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s top target from last season
from hitting free agency. (AP)

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Main storyline: Stop McDermott.
The nation’s leading scorer Doug
McDermott (26 points per game) was
held to 14 points on 5-for-15 shooting
in the Bluejays’ first meeting
against the Hoyas, but Creighton
still won 76-63. It was Georgetown’s
offense that struggled on Jan. 25,
shooting just 39.3 percent from the
field. Will the Hoyas get another
stellar defensive performance on
McDermott tonight?
Player to watch: Hoyas guard Jabril
Trawick. Georgetown has finally
found its third scorer to help Markel
Starks and D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera.
Trawick, above, has scored in double
digits in five straight games and
tied his season high with 16 points in
Thursday’s loss to Marquette.

Virginia Tech at Maryland
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Main storyline: Closing it out. The
Terps have lost three of their past
four games by a combined eight
points — falling at Duke 69-67,
vs. Syracuse 57-55 and in double
overtime Sunday at Clemson 77-73.
After missing out on a couple
opportunities to vastly improve
its tournament résumé, Maryland
looks to improve its close-out ability
against the worst team in the ACC.
Player to watch: Terps forward
Evan Smotrycz. The junior was
4-for-7 from 3-point range Sunday
after shooting just 5-for-29 in his
previous six games. Maryland could
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Orlov Receives Two-Game Ban
Dmitry Orlov has been suspended two games for boarding Flyers
forward Brayden Schenn in the
third period of Sunday’s game,
leaving the Capitals without one
of their top-four defensemen for
a key set of back-to-back games
this week.
The NHL’s department of player safety deemed Orlov’s hit a “violent check” and continued a season-long trend of penalizing those
who choose to drive players into
the boards from behind.
Orlov, 22, will forfeit $7,076.92
in pay and is eligible to return to
the lineup on Saturday against
Phoenix. It is the ﬁrst suspension

TONI L. SANDYS (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Capitals

Dmitry Orlov, left, received a five-minute major for this boarding penalty.

in the defenseman’s career, which
spans 101 regular-season games
over the past three years.

Orlov received a five-minute
major penalty for boarding, an
infraction that shifted the game
in the Flyers’ favor and allowed
them to mount a comeback en
route to a 5-4 overtime win. Now
not only did the hit cost the Capitals a chance to close out a victory,
but it will test their blueline depth
in games at Philadelphia and Boston on Wednesday and Thursday.
Jack Hillen was called up from
Hershey and will return to the lineup after missing ﬁve months with
a fractured tibial plateau in his
right leg. The 28-year-old played
in two games with the Capitals
this season before suffering the
injury against Calgary on Oct. 3.
K ATIE CARRER A (THE WASHINGTON POST )

College Basketball AP Top 25 Poll
Florida, Wichita State and Arizona are the top three teams in The
Associated Press college basketball poll for the second straight
week. The Gators (27-2), who are on a school-record 21-game winning streak, were a solid No. 1 Monday, receiving 46 first-place
votes from the 65-member national media panel. Wichita State
(31-0), the first team since Saint Joseph’s in 2004 to enter its conference tournament undefeated, was No. 1 on 14 ballots, while Arizona (27-2), which was ranked No. 1 for eight weeks earlier this
season, got the other five first-place votes. Duke moved up two
spots to fourth while Virginia, which won its first outright ACC title
since 1981, jumped from 12th to fifth, the Cavaliers’ first Top Ten
appearance since 2002. (AP)
1. Florida (46)
27-2
2. Wichita St. (14) 31-0
3. Arizona (5)
27-2
4. Duke
23-6
5. Virginia
25-5
6. Villanova
26-3
7. Syracuse
26-3
8. Kansas
22-7
9. Wisconsin
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Reading a magazine at the gym? Bad idea. But turning a
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better butt, stronger arms and more) and silly segments
involving comedians taking tough fitness classes. And it’s
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Making Waves at the Gym
The most important thing to bring
to the gym? An active imagination.
It’s what turns an indoor cycling
class into a stage of the Tour de
France, or a treadmill session into
a marathon triumph. Add some
California dreaming to a new
piece of exercise equipment — the
RipSurfer X, a 70-inch-long surfboard perched on a short, wobbly
base — and you’ll be transported
to the beach.
That’s the premise of SurfSet,
a group ﬁtness concept that transforms squats, pushups and planks
into new moves by adding a touch
of instability and fantasy.
“We’re keeping the fun of surfing but taking away the water, the
sharks and the stinging coral,” says
Jen Frankel, group ﬁtness director
for Crunch’s two Northern Virginia gyms. When the Tysons Corner and Reston locations opened
in December, Frankel — a master
trainer for SurfSet — made sure
both were ready to help members
catch a wave.
Aquatic experience can come
in handy for SurfSet, but it’s not
necessary, says Frankel, who has
never surfed a day in her life. She
has, however, spent decades dancing as a Rockette and in Broadway
shows. And she relies on her acting chops to make every class feel
like a day at the beach. Just not a
particularly relaxing one.
Before launching into the warmup, Frankel introduces her students
to the RipSurfer X units. There are
bands on either side on the board
that control how much it teeters,

Instructor Jen Frankel
is often mistaken for
a surf pro, but she has
never surfed.

and for beginners, she recommends
hooking both in to provide stability. Most of the top of the board is
covered with black matting, which
is more comfortable on the knees
and wrists. It also indicates where
you can step safely; no mat and
you’re likely to go splat.
The first moves are simple:

Stand sideways, squat and let your
feet rock from toes to heels. Pull
up your surfer arms — the front
one extending straight out and the
other bent into your chest — as you
step side to side, getting a feel for
the board. Then turn so you’re facing front and squat again. If it feels
shaky, that’s normal, Frankel says.

It’s why she has her students
grab a weighted bar. They can plant
one end on the ground for extra
stability or pick it up for more of
a strength and balance challenge.
Her favorite forward-facing move:
water walkers. Stand on one leg
while you dip the other one into
the air, as if you were sweeping
your toes through the sea foam.
Many SurfSet exercises play
off similar visualizations. In “hot
sand,” you quickly hop on and off
the board, pretending that the
beach is burning your soles. For
“Jaws shark kicks,” you sit on the
board facing forward, lean back
and grip the edges. Then you imagine that a shark has appeared at
your feet and you need to fend it
off by smacking it with your heels.
That core strengthener is also
practical advice — if you ever happen to ﬁnd yourself face to face
with a great white. “If you strike

a shark on the nose, it’s supposed
to retreat,” Frankel says.
Almost any move you can do on
land is also possible on a RipSurfer X. “Wave runners” are the SurfSet version of mountain climbers.
And board burpees are downright
cruel — although pretty similar to
the pop-ups real surfers perform.
(Too tough? Try it with your feet
on the floor and your hands on
the board.)

Details
Crunch offers SurfSet classes at its
Tysons club (8371 Leesburg Pike,
Vienna) on Tuesdays at 12:15 p.m.
and Saturdays at 11 a.m., and at
its Reston club (11951 Freedom
Drive) on Mondays at 7:30 p.m. and
Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. For more
details, visit crunch.com.

“Because you’re on the board,
you’re doing things differently and
using every muscle in your body,”
says Frankel’s student Loretta
Douglas, 39. The Vienna resident
is originally from Miami, so she
especially appreciates the talk of
sun and sand. “It helps you forget
about how cold it is outside.”
First-timer Mike McCabe, also
from Vienna, got the hang of the
RipSurfer quickly at a recent class.
“It’s just enough to keep you offbalance,” says the 50-year-old, who’s
glad that the workout is easier than
actual surﬁng. “My kids surfed, but
I never did it successfully.”
Although the class might not
prepare you to hang 10, it can help
you hang in there.
Those balance skills are going
to be useful the next time you ﬁnd
yourself out on the water — the
kind that’s frozen all over your
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For Other Woman

BEN CLAASSEN III

I’ve been involved
with a married man
on and off for six
years. Yes, it’s a cliche. He originally
told me he was separating from his wife, but that never
happened. He now says he’s waiting for his kids to be “on their own.”
(It used to be when they left for college.) I feel like if I just hang on a little longer we can be together, but I
know that is unrealistic to others. I
am tired of being the other woman,
but I can’t seem to shake him and
move on. STUCK, VA.\

Worried About Baby Wait
My husband and I had said that we
would start trying to conceive around
now, but I’m feeling like it isn’t the right
time for children. There is instability in
my job, and there are also some health
problems in my in-laws’ family. My husband says
these shouldn’t be reasons for us not to start
trying, and that it might take a while to conceive
anyway. I just don’t feel ready, but he is accusing
me of backing out of our deal. NEED MORE TIME
You have to ask yourself: If you
woke up with a totally secure job
and good news about your in-laws’
health problems, would you latch
on to a different excuse? Are your
deepest doubts about having kids
speciﬁcally tied to these two issues,
or would they apply anytime?
If you’re truly on board with
children, a delay in the game plan

Event Horizon

Spring
Into a Run

can be understandable. Life happens. But it’s only workable if you
can set some speciﬁc parameters
about exactly what needs to change
and by when. If you’re delaying
having kids in the way that the
“gentleman” in the other letter
on this page is delaying leaving
his wife, then that’s a conversation that shouldn’t be delayed at all.

Is it unrealistic that he’ll leave his
wife? Of course. (Count us in with
the “others.”) So how should you
get over him? First, by starting the
process of actually being separated.
Yes, it will hurt at ﬁrst — probably
badly, and possibly hideously. But
until you really bring yourself to
cut off contact, you can’t move on.
This is especially true in your
situation, where the nuts and bolts
of your daily life’s structure won’t
look that different after you’re broken up, so you need a clean break.
And then you need friends, new
interests, laughter, changes of scenery and, most of all, an exploration into how he came to get such
a hold of you, despite what was
best for you.

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Andrea
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Body composition tests are also available at hospitals such as Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington and MedStar
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The Ashburn lab, which has been
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clients looking to lose weight, Miller
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Baseline” to up to $475 for “The Professional”). There are discounts for
multiple assessments for people looking to track their progress.
Here are the top three tests Miller
recommends (along with the price for
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Undergoing an iDXA scan isn’t a lot of
work — just lie back and let the X-rays
determine your body composition.

GE Lunar iDXA
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The $120,000 machine, which also
checks bone density, is the only one that can
measure fat around the organs, Miller says.
“That’s the fat that’s most predictive
of metabolic disorder, cardiovascular
disease,” he says. “The higher that is, the
worse off you are.”

An Ashburn, Va., lab
offers assessments
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When a doctor told Dan McAuliffe
it was time to drop some of his 208
pounds, he knew he’d need more than
a gym routine — and the number on
his scale.
“I wanted to have a coordinated
program that made sense to me, as
opposed to just going into a gym and
start lifting weight and exercising,”
the 65-year-old Round Hill, Va., resident says. “I wanted a starting point.”
He found one at the George Washington University Weight Management
and Human Performance Laboratory
(44983 Knoll Square, Ashburn, Va.;
go.gwu.edu/vstclab), where he underwent a battery of tests to determine his

lean mass percentage, body fat percentage and metabolic rate.
Using that information, lab director Todd Miller and dietician Stephanie Mull developed an exercise and
diet plan tailored speciﬁcally to McAuliffe. His fitness sessions emphasized building muscle in several target areas, and his meals added up to
1,900 calories per day. In six weeks,
he lost 14 pounds.
“Knowing what your caloric need
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knowing how much you need to lose,

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Put Your Body
To These Tests
Lab clients breathe into a tube for 10 minutes to find out their resting metabolic rate.

coming up with measurable goals and
having an accurate way of measuring
them are really the only effective way
to really attack weight loss and maintain it,” Miller says.
Access to those numbers can be hard
to come by. GWU has a similar facility at its Foggy Bottom campus, but

InBody 720 BIA
$100 | For half the price, clients can
opt for a test using this $15,000 piece of
equipment. It also measures body composition, but with slightly less accuracy,
Miller says — it’s about 98 percent as accurate as iDXA.
For two minutes, clients stand on it
barefooted and grip handlebars to provide
eight points of contact through which unfelt electric charges flow into the body.
“It knows the resistance that muscle
gives and fat gives and then calculates
your composition,” Miller says. The pulses
travel faster through muscle than fat.

Resting metabolic rate

— DA N McAULIFFE , WHO WENT TO THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY WEIGHT

$100 | Miller has clients sit still in a chair
and breathe through their mouths into a
tube for 10 minutes to test how much oxygen they consume while resting.
“By knowing the amount of oxygen the
body consumes, you can extrapolate out to
the amount of calories the body burns,” he
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A Tough Hill Workout
Brenda Martinez knows a lot about
firsts. The track star was the first
person in her family to graduate
from college. At last year’s world
championships, she became the
first American woman to place in
the top three in the 800 meters.
And this week, the California native
is taking her first trip to D.C.
“I’m trying to do good things
through my running,” says Mar-

tinez, 26, who’s part of a delegation of athletes lobbying for more
federal funding for physical activity. The celebrity lineup, which
also includes softball great Jennie Finch, Olympic gold medalwinning swimmer Cullen Jones
and several pro football players,
will be tackling a series of meetings on the Hill.
The goal of the trip: to build
support for the Personal Health
Investment Today Act, which would
allow Americans to pay for physical activity expenses with pre-tax
dollars, as well as the Carol M.
White Physical Education Pro-

NEW BALANCE

Brenda Martinez and
other U.S. athletes hit
the town to lobby for
more fitness funding

Track star Brenda Martinez is eager to
learn what it takes to run Washington.

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gram, which provides grants to
schools and community organizations to improve physical education for children.
Both issues are important to
Martinez, who runs a summer
camp for high school girls in Big
Bear Lake, Calif., and mentors one
young female athlete each year.
“We run, and talk about making healthy choices,” Martinez says.
Through these discussions —
and her own experience — she has
seen how lack of money can make
ﬁtness more difﬁcult. When kids
are wearing old shoes or don’t have
access to the proper equipment, it’s

harder for them to perform.
“I feel that it can deter people from exercise,” Martinez says.
“And the whole point is to get people moving.”
Martinez, of course, moves
quite a bit: She has been logging
75 to 80 miles each week for training. Because the schedule set by her
coach currently calls for two runs
a day, Martinez will be squeezing in a pair of workouts before
and after her lobbying obligations. (She’ll likely have to forgo
the nap she usually takes in the
middle of the day.)
There are no plans yet for
any members of Congress to
join her, but they’re all welcome
to come along, she says. Maybe
they can share tips on how to run
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In Brief

‘G I R L’ is an ode
to the female
form and spirit,
peppered with
sexy vibes and
brash come-ons.

STAGE AND SCREEN

‘Made in Dagenham’
Heads to London’s Stage
Producers said Monday that “Quantum of Solace” actress Gemma
Arterton will play the lead role in
“Made in Dagenham,” a musical based
on the 2010 film of the same name.
The film starred Sally Hawkins and
tells the story of a band of female
workers in 1968 who fight the powers at their Ford factory. Directed by
Rupert Goold, the show opens at London’s Adelphi Theatre on Nov. 5. (AP)
SEQUELS

“Anchorman” and “Anchorman 2” director Adam McKay told Empire magazine
that there will be no more sequels in the
franchise. “I think that’s it for Ron Burgundy,” McKay told the magazine, referring to the character played by Will Ferrell. McKay also hinted that he would
not follow up with any of his other films,
saying “I think that’s the last sequel
we’re gonna do.” McKay previously
directed “Step Brothers” in 2008 and
“The Other Guys ” in 2010, both starring
Ferrell. (E XPRESS)

43M
The approximate number of viewers
of Sunday night’s Academy Awards
ceremony on ABC, making it the
most watched Oscars in 10 years,
according to the Hollywood
Reporter. This year’s show earned
a roughly 6 percent increase in
viewers from last year’s telecast,
which brought in 40.4 million
viewers. Host Ellen DeGeneres
also beat her previous record:
The comedian earned 40.2 million
viewers when she hosted the
awards in 2007. (E XPRESS)

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Pharrell performs “Happy,” from “Despicable Me 2” and his album “G I R L,” at Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony.

Keep a ‘Happy’ Beat
Pharrell’s new album,
‘G I R L,’ is a cheeky
and upbeat homage
to the opposite sex
Album Review
On the heels of two monster hits
where he was the co-star — the Daft
Punk jaunty funk jam “Get Lucky”
and the much vilified yet utterly

catchy “Blurred
Lines” with
Robin Thicke —
Pharrell is taking the lead with
t he relent le ss
“Happy,” which
appears on the “Despicable Me 2”
soundtrack and was nominated
for best original song at this year’s
Academy Awards (it lost to “Let It
Go” from “Frozen”). The cheerful
tune is also on his second studio

album, “G I R L,” out now.
The 10-track set is an ode to
the female form and spirit, peppered with sexy vibes and brash
come-ons. A deﬁnite change from
his raspier, more alternative ﬁrst
album, which wasn’t particularly
successful, “G I R L” proves Pharrell — a member of N.E.R.D. and
the hit-making Neptunes — is a
true, and exceptional, frontman.
Cynics will dismiss the album
as a shameless attempt to derail the

accusations of misogyny leveled at
“Blurred Lines.” After all, Pharrell
is cheeky and sexy, and his lyrics
sometimes blur the lines between
playful seduction and outright
possession. “Ain’t no sense in you
roaming around, if I can’t have you
nobody can,” he says in “Hunter,”
but maybe that’s his way of saying he can’t help it if the ladies ﬁnd
him attractive and he reciprocates.
After all, this is the entire ethos of
the album: love in its purest form,
love at the ﬁrst frisson, love settled
on a cloud, love of the ﬂesh.
The record’s tempo matches
the upbeat “Happy,” and it deploys
killer hooks. The sound is eclectic, ranging from dramatic violins
in the Daft Punk-assisted “Gust
of Wind” to Motown disco beats
in “Hunter” and tribal drums in
“Lost Queen.” Persistent echoes
of Michael Jackson-style sound
lurk on the album, from the sultry “Gush” to the deliciously headbopping “Marilyn Monroe” to
the Justin Timberlake-featured
“Brand New.”
A deﬁnite homage to women
is the female empowerment ballad “Know Who You Are,” where
Pharrell sings with piano queen
Alicia Keys. He croons on the mellow reggae tune, “I know who you
are and I know what you’re feeling.” No doubt about where he
stands on gender equality there.
CRISTINA JALERU (AP)

That’s Not ‘All Right All Right All Right’ Matthew McConaughey, left, told reporters backstage
at the Academy Awards on Sunday that he will not be returning to “True Detective” in its second season. McConaughey, who stars as Detective Rust Cohle on HBO’s hit series, said that “Season 1 was finite.” E! News reports
“True Detective” in January had HBO’s highest rated drama premiere since 2010, with 2.3 million viewers. (E XPRESS)

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Steve Martin hopes
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with Edie Brickell all
the way to Broadway

This musical odyssey you’re on
seems to have brought you a lot of
joy in an unexpected way ...

It’s truly unexpected because it got
me back live performing and I had
removed myself from live performing for almost 30 years. So that’s
really unexpected.
Why did you decide to stop live
performance?

It’s just very difﬁcult. Doing an
hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. … But performing music is a way to do comedy also, but without the obligation
to do a solid hour, hour and half
of it. I could intersperse it with
music, so it became a really good
format for me.

It’s a special time for Steve Martin
and Edie Brickell. They just won
a surprising Grammy Award for
American roots recording. Their
“Great Performances” concert,
“Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell
Live,” is set to air on PBS throughout March with a companion CD/
DVD set, out March 11. And they
will start a tour later this month
that includes three concerts at The
Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles
over the Fourth of July weekend.
Martin discussed his friendship with Brickell, his unexpected
second career as a musician and a
new musical he hopes will make it
to Broadway.

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— STEVE MARTIN, ON HIS PARTNERSHIP WITH EDIE BRICKELL, WHICH INCLUDES THE
GRAMMY AWARD-NOMINATED ALBUM “LOVE HAS COME FOR YOU”

The “Great Performances” concert
is your ﬁrst concert recorded for
broadcast. Are you happy with it?

I’m really happy to get this
iteration of it on videotape. I
think we’re just about to change
it, and I don’t mean deliberately,
you can just tell it’s about to
evolve into a new form. So I’m
happy to have this version of it
recorded so we can move on and
get some new material and kind
of feel like we’re not leaving
behind something that wasn’t
preserved.
What is it about your relationship
with Brickell that makes it so fruitful?

You have to be able to get along
with someone, though I think a
lot of collaborators don’t get along

— I’ve heard stories about that. …
Right now, we’re in the middle of
this musical, and that’s mostly on
my mind, and we both are at a very
free state in our creativity, meaning we work quickly and without
inhibition. That is perfect for what
we’re doing.
Will this be a traditional musical
or will there be some twist?

Well, let’s put it this way … It’s
got more of a pared-down orchestra with stringed instruments
—in this case there will be the
banjo, ﬁddle, cello, piano, maybe
seven instruments. And the musicians will be on stage, integrated
into the show. It has a beginning,
middle and end, and a strong story.
CHRIS TALBOT T (AP)

Moroccan the Boat: Comedian Chelsea Handler drew accusations of racism after she was invited to take over The Huffington Post’s Twitter account during Sunday night’s Oscars and repeatedly touted her upcoming book, “Uganda Be
Kidding Me,” whenever “12 Years A Slave” received an award. In one, she tweeted,
“Congratulations #12yearsaslave Go to Africa or buy #ugandabekiddingme.” People responded via Twitter with words like “disgraceful,” “offensive” and “racist.”
Huffington Post senior executive director Perri Dorset said the site was upfront
about the Twitter feed takeover, adding, “the views are theirs not ours.” (AP)

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singer who John Travolta
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followers. @AdeleDazeem has
more than 1,800.

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possible origin of the self-aware
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Including smart toothbrushes,
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of this year, technology analysts
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Karina Smirnoff of “Dancing With
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competitors. According to Radar Online, Smirnoff approached the former
president over the weekend. “He just
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The musicians on Friday welcomed
their third son, Apollo Bowie Flynn
Rossdale. Rossdale tweeted news of
the birth Saturday and said Bowie
and Flynn were their mothers’
maiden names. Apollo’s brothers
are 5-year-old Zuma and 7-year-old
Kingston. Rossdale and Stefani met
in the mid-1990s and were married
in 2002. (AP)

Liam Neeson says he’s “a little bit pissed
off” at Mayor Bill de Blasio for wanting
to shut down the horse-drawn carriage
industry in New York. The actor said so
last week on “The Daily Show,” alleging
that critics have cited false information
about how the horses are treated. He
says the carriage drivers treat the horses like their own children. (AP)